June 2011 - Argghhh!

Been There, Done That -- and probably 80% of you who comment or lurk have experienced taking the Long Way Home..Now a friend of one of my Viet Vet buds has written a song about it with Carol Ashton, and I think you'll like it. There's no embed code for this particular site, so you'll have to scoot over to Smashune to see the vid -- and if you like it, vote for it. I liked it, or I wouldn't have asked you to spend four minutes listening to it....

... can't remember around who's neck he hung the Medal of Honor, vice who's parents he gave it to, and the fact we're getting serious talk that the only thing wrong with the previous stimulus packages were that they weren't big enough... because that's the only possible reason the stimulus didn't work, aside from the fact we weasel bastards aren't doing our bit and just spending everything we have, this quote from Samuel Clemens resonates loudly: "Sometimes I...

Something new has been added -- see the ad for My Bullet in the sidebar?I am in the unique position of being able to tell you that it's a genuine Good Deal. I know the product, and I know one of the guys who owns the company -- LTC (Ret) Paul Spangler's a fellow Viet vet Army Aviator (okay, he mostly flew fixed wing, part of an outfit that Wasn't There and did things You Can't Prove). Ya see, when Spanky (we call him Spanky on the Viet vet Aviation forum) got the idea for My Bullet...

Come join us as we watch people exercise their right to tell us what criminals we are! I personally think I would like them to take their schtick to Syria. But I'm really really really hoping the Phelp's will show up. My buddy Pat Kitchens, the Chief of the Leavenworth Police Department, probably does *not* share my enthusiasm for that particular scenario... SWWBO and I will be attending.

Exactly what were some of the WMDs we found?Well, for starters, we found 550 long tons of unrefined yellowcake (for the metrically-impaired, that’s 1,212,541 pounds of the stuff Joe Wilson *said* Saddam had no interest in acquiring). The Dems squeaked that it didn’t count, because Saddam had no centrifuges to use in enriching it to weapons grade – and then when we found the centrifuges, they squawked that the centrifuges (the exact same model Siemens centrifuge Iran used at Natanz...

[Click the pics to enlargify]An F/A-18C Hornet assigned to Strike Fighter Squadron 113 breaks the sound barrier during an air power demonstration over the aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70) in the Pacific Ocean on June 6, 2011. The Carl Vinson and Carrier Air Wing 17 are currently underway in the U.S. 7th Fleet area of responsibility. DoD photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Travis K. Mendoza, U.S. Navy. (Released)06/06/2011 - A U.S. Navy F/A-18E Super Hornet aircraft assigned to Strike Fighter...

On yesterday's Gun *** post, USMC Steve asked, "Where are your Galils?" The answer to that is... down the rack from the AKs. Click the pics to enlargify.